Chapter 152 Seize air supremacy in Shanghai
When the hellfire explosion sounded on the airfield, the Japanese army understood the tactics of the Chinese army, which did not rely on artillery, but on long-range strikes from the air. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, it is meaningless to realize it in hindsight, and the entire airport is already full of holes, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to put it into use all of a sudden. And after the Viper's attack was issued, Wei Qidong immediately notified the ground troops to retreat.
Quickly, all the troops sent out began to shrink, and then gathered together to retreat.
Tang Xinyi quickly drove the Viper back to reconnoitre, in order to find out the movement of the Japanese reinforcements, after all, it was to go deep into the rear of the Japanese army, since the purpose of the battle had been achieved, if he could avoid the battle, he would avoid the battle.
With Wei Qidong's guidance, it was much easier for the Chinese army to transfer away from the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, and one of the vanguard units of the Japanese army wanted to bite us.
Exposed in the field, there are no fortifications, dozens of cannons bombarded, and thousands of people are not enough to see, and Wei Qidong is still at a high altitude from time to time to make the artillery more correct, and the more accurate it is. In just half an hour or so, a whole Japanese wing could not withstand it, which shows the importance of heavy weapons.
After the artillery bombardment, the Viper was lowered again and carried out low-altitude cannon strafing, and the ground troops of the Chinese army basically did not need to be dispatched, and a Japanese wing was disabled, and then fled in disarray.
Wei Qidong didn't bother to let the ground troops pursue, and immediately guided the troops to speed up the retreat.
The Central China Front Command in Shanghai, when he heard that the airport had been blown up, Matsui Ishine got up directly from his seat, how long did it take for the Chinese army to succeed? But when he learned the details, Matsui Shigen was so angry that he didn't fight.
"Baga, they're all idiots, rice buckets. Knowing that Wei Qidong's plane has a long-range strike capability, why did he shrink the defensive line? Why not take the initiative to extend the position to block it? If the attack is extended, with the cooperation of anti-aircraft fire, Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi will not be able to get close to the vicinity of our airport at all. Matsui asked loudly.
"The artillery fire of the Chinese army was too fierce, and with the cooperation of Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi, the ground forces attacked quickly. The troops deployed on the front flank were too scattered, so they had to retreat and reorganize and rebuild the defensive line to block the attack...... "Knowing that it was a big deal, the commander of the garrison who was in charge of guarding the airfield still explained stubbornly.
"That's not a reason, you know, once the airport is destroyed, the thirty planes that have been dispatched will never come back. Without this forward airfield, there would be no guarantee for the bomber groups flying from Nagasaki and Taiwan, can you afford this responsibility? ”
Anger is anger, but the facts have been created, and no matter how angry you are, you can't change the ending. And what made Matsui Ishine feel even worse was that a division in charge of chasing down the Chinese army actually found nothing, not only did it not stop the Chinese army, but also had a wing of its own that was disabled, which was simply laughing off.
"The most ridiculous battle in Shanghai." This is Matsui Ishone's evaluation.
Although last night's losses were much greater than today's, last night did not take into account the sudden several times increase in the artillery of the Chinese army, which was regarded as a big bargain for the Chinese army.
But today, it was just a matter of letting the Chinese army break in, and it didn't stop the attack all the way, but let the Chinese army easily kill the airport, and then retreat calmly, paying a much heavier price than the Chinese army. You must know that the Chinese army is already about to abandon Shanghai, and the withdrawal from Shanghai is stepping up, and this is the greatest humiliation to the Imperial Japanese Army.
However, what Matsui Ishine didn't know was that the good show was still to come, and it would be staged one after another.
Maybe it was because he realized something, but at this time, Matsui Ishine remembered and couldn't help asking, "What are the results of the aviation?" Did you find the artillery of the Chinese army and destroy it? ”
"There has been no news from the aviation forces yet."
At this time, news came from the airport that the fighters responsible for escorting the bomber group from Taiwan flew back, but they did not bring back any bombers, and the bomber group did not arrange for the scheduled time to appear. Subsequently, the fighters responsible for bringing in the bomber groups flying from Nagasaki also flew back, and there was no harvest either, as if both bomber groups had released their pigeons, which was too unreasonable.
Although I don't understand it, the most important thing now is that when these withdrawn fighters were about to land, they launched that the airport was still smoking, and the ground of the airport was full of potholes.
As a matter of fact, the group of Japanese bombers that had flown over from a long distance was even more depressed, and they had waited for their Japanese fighters to come to escort them according to the agreement, but they waited for the Chinese planes before they could wait for the Japanese planes. Although the group appeared a little early, the Japanese bomber groups in both directions did not think much about it, and regarded the Chinese Air Force planes as their escort groups, and waited until the Chinese Air Force group approached and launched a fierce attack before they reacted and were deceived.
A heavy bomber without an escort group is a huge live target, and although its own firepower is also good, its flexibility is much worse than that of the fighters, and in addition, the fighters of the Chinese Air Force have an advantage in numbers, so effective tactics have been formulated in advance. Under the sudden attack, the two bomber groups flying from Nagasaki and Taiwan were unable to resist at all, and were chased and attacked by fighters of the Chinese Air Force all the way. After the heavy losses, he did not dare to fly in the direction of Shanghai, so he could only turn back and escape.
After the pursuit could no longer be pursued, the Chinese Air Force turned around and withdrew in the other direction. Soon after, the Japanese group of planes appeared slowly, still looking for why the agreed group of bombers did not appear, and they even flew forward for a distance to search, but still found nothing. But how did they know that in order to prevent these escorting Japanese planes from appearing when the Chinese Air Force was hunting the Japanese bomber group, Wei Qidong deliberately asked the Chinese Air Force plane group to volley forward.
When the Japanese bombers who fled back flew back, the Japanese learned that their actions were exposed, and they were directly cut off by the Chinese Air Force, and suffered heavy losses.
However, the dozens of Japanese planes on the Shanghai side could not find an airfield where they could land, and the fuel could not allow them to fly to other Japanese airfields, so they could only find a place in Shanghai where they could make a forced landing. However, after a forced landing, 30 planes also suffered heavy losses, and even if they were not completely destroyed, they almost had to be overhauled.
After all the news was summarized here by Matsui Shigen, he finally knew that the Chinese army had taken a big game of chess this time, killing several birds with one stone.
At present, the Japanese army's air superiority in East China has been temporarily abolished, while the Chinese army's superiority in artillery fire and air has been manifested on the contrary.